After a freshman season spent on the defensive line, Emerson has
emerged as a serious scoring threat under first-year head coach
Juan Pablo
Favero. She has four goals on the year and a team-best
four assists for 12 points. She's also put up points in seven of
the last eight games.

Two additional Bobcat goals were called back on offside
penalties, and a number of good scoring threats were thwarted by
the Pacer goalkeeper.

"This was a tough game mentally," said Favero. "To make the
trip, have to wait a bit to start play and have the factor of the
first national ranking in school history, it can't be easy to play
with all of that on your shoulders. We would've liked a more
comfortable result, but we'll take the win and work harder in the
next game."

The 7 p.m. start was delayed by a men's game that went to
overtime.

Bobcat goalkeeper Mary Rob Plunkett
(Augusta, Ga.) was stalwart once again, picking up her
sixth shutout of the season, the school-record tying ninth for the
team this year. Only threatened a handful of times, Plunkett made
two saves in the win.

The Bobcats improve to 3-1-1 in conference play, leapfrogging to
two spots to third place in the Peach Belt Conference (PBC)
standings. They are tied with second-place UNC Pembroke in record,
but lost to the Braves earlier this season.

The Bobcats return to action Sunday, Oct. 19 at 1 p.m. for the
final non-conference game of the season, traveling to Lincoln
Memorial University (10-1-1). The Railsplitters most recently beat
Newberry College 2-1 Tuesday night.

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